Naturally or Not

[Garren]

Would like to get everyones thoughts on if you allow natural breeding & raising of the babies. 

Pulling eggs or babies after they hatch?

Just leave them and let nature do it's thing?  

 

[Fish Folk]

On 9/6/2021 at 4:27 PM, Garren said:

Would like to get everyones thoughts on if you allow natural breeding & raising of the babies. 

Pulling eggs or babies after they hatch?

Just leave them and let nature do it's thing?  

 

Love the question! With Livebearers, I prefer to allow them to spawn naturally and just let the strong survive in a colony.

For Dwarf Cichlids, I pull Ram eggs. I let Apistos raise their own. Kribensis raise their own. I pull Angelfish and Electric Blue Acaras. Discus need to feed off parents slime coat, so they stay awhile with adults. I pull out _parents_ of most egg scatterers — or use a catch container to pull. Mouth brooders are usually moved to separate tank to spit fry when ready. Though I’ve stripped some eggs before and tumbled. Corydoras eggs are separated and hatched in a specimen container. Mop spawning Killifish eggs are picked out and placed in hatching jugs.

What species are you working on? 

[Tihshho]

It all depends to the space you have available and how you approach this part of the hobby. If you're looking for a higher yield of offspring, pulling a gravid female live bearer or a eggs from an egg layer will more often than not provide you a higher hatch/birth yield. If it's a species I'm actively working on breeding I always separate in order to get the largest clutch. If it's something that accidently spawned or I'm not after the babies then I let nature take its course. Some species require you to pull the babies or the eggs as they are at risk for predation, some egg layers that historically (species wise) can eat eggs just from being inexperienced adults. Both ways work somewhat, now you just have to pick the red pill or the blue pill. 

[Garren]

On 9/6/2021 at 4:34 PM, Fish Folk said:

Love the question! With Livebearers, I prefer to allow them to spawn naturally and just let the strong survive in a colony.

For Dwarf Cichlids, I pull Ram eggs. I let Apistos raise their own. Kribensis raise their own. I pull Angelfish and Electric Blue Acaras. Discus need to feed off parents slime coat, so they stay awhile with adults. I pull out _parents_ of most egg scatterers — or use a catch container to pull. Mouth brooders are usually moved to separate tank to spit fry when ready. Though I’ve stripped some eggs before and tumbled. Corydoras eggs are separated and hatched in a specimen container. Mop spawning Killifish eggs are picked out and placed in hatching jugs.

What species are you working on? 

No specific species at the moment. Just a question I always wanted to ask but just never got around to it. Wanted to know others opinions. 

[Atitagain]

Like other post depending on breed and my intentions. I know I’ve had plenty of times I wanted to keep the babies but said I’ll pull them tomorrow or later. Wrong Wrong Wrong

[Fish Folk]

On 9/6/2021 at 9:32 PM, Atitagain said:

Like other post depending on breed and my intentions. I know I’ve had plenty of times I wanted to keep the babies but said I’ll pull them tomorrow or later. Wrong Wrong Wrong

^this. truth.^